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Cultural Expressions: From Spoken Word to Jazz, airs
Friday, February 5 at 8:30 p.m. on WXXI-TV, features an in-depth conversation with the late Dr. Paul Burgett, Vice President, Senior Advisor to the President and University Dean at the University of Rochester, and Grammy award nominee, musician, and music producer Jimmie Highsmith, Jr. about jazz and its roots.
Dr. Paul Burgett was also a faculty member in the music department of the University of Rochesterâs College of Arts & Sciences, where he taught courses in the History of Jazz, the Music of Black Americans, and Music Appreciation. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Eastman School of Music.
Arthur Satz
The Department of Music in the School of Arts & Sciences has become the first named department in the school, thanks to a gift from former music major and influential arts education leader Arthur Satz ’51.
The late president of the New York School of Interior Design, Satz bequeathed the largest ever gift geared toward supporting the humanities at Rochester.
In addition to establishing the Arthur Satz Department of Music, the commitment will establish a minimum of five new professorships in fields related to the humanities. Honey Meconi, a professor with appointments in the School of Arts & Sciences and at the Eastman School of Music, has been awarded the first of the professorships as the Arthur Satz Professor for the Department of Music.